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What is SEO Waffle? – This bit is!
Search Engine Optimisation WAFFLE! Try and avoid irrelevant website copy like this it will not aid the ultimate aim of the website page. You might think you are being smart, but what about the people who the site is really for? Ask yourself will they be impressed? Why do you need this content? It is […]
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Website Developers’ Basic Rules
Key words are the terms you think your prospective viewers will put in. They may not actually be the ones that spring to your mind. Think laterally, brainstorm – someone actually looking for fresh fruit may come across your website and buy your fruit bowls. However, search engine flavour sites, that is, you can be […]
Some ideas that will help you promote your own website.
Direct Ways Listed in search engines Listed in directories, including local UK-based ones Exchange Banners or links with other websites. A banner is a graphic that acts as a hyperlink. Usually the banner is a small advert. Press releases to magazines and newspapers with the website address/URL included. Pay for engine ranking. Pay for adverts […]
Adding SEO to WordPress
Technical SEO’s meta tag components can be added to a WordPress website by installing a plug in like “Add Meta Tags” by George Notaras. A short tutorial on adding WordPress plugins can be found here The three technical component that matter most are Title Tag Description Tag Keyword Tag Page Title Tag : The […]
What SEO should I avoid?
Blog and forum posting tools that automatically produce large number of fuzzy quality links. Bad grammar – Search engines check your grammar to infer whether or not your content is simply a ‘paste and change.’ In the past some sites would harvest relevant copy and then use a software algorithm and synonyms to substitute verbs […]
The Black Hat Arts
The naughty boy techniques are known as spamdexing, search engine spam, search engine poisoning, back hat SEO and so forth. Since the introduction of Panda on Google in 2011 and Penguin, some of the Search Engine Optimisation ranking old tricks no longer work. So be careful that the Search Engine Optimisation techniques you have found […]
Google says robots.txt ok, but description for this result is not available.
So you have set up your WordPress site along with a robots.txt and a Google web tools account. Google says the robots.txt file says the website crawl is allowed You try looking at www.yoursite.co.uk/robots.txt etc and the file displays something like these, i.e. they are ok… User-agent: * Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Google happily […]
WordPress SEO Visibility setting – Don’t use it…
If you look in the WordPress ‘Settting’ menu, submenu option ‘Reading,’ you’ll find the box below – On no account use this setting ever! Just take my advice…. Certainly never use it after you site is live and well indexed by engines like Google unless you like hard work and a long wait to get […]